String theory pioneer succeeds Hawking in Lucasian role

One of the founders of string theory has been elected to replace Stephen Hawking as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. Professor Michael Green becomes the 18th holder of the professorship. Prof Green, who currently holds the John Humphrey Plummer Professorship of Theoretical Physics is one of the founders of string theory, generally regarded as the most successful candidate to date to unify quantum theory and general relativity, the two fundamental physical theories of the early twentieth century, and thereby formulate a consistent quantum theory of gravity.